Independent News‘Caring’ Archives
Get the Scoop
For those who are looking to volunteer at Baptist Hospital, get the scoop on August 7. The ice cream social/information meeting will be in the Heritage Room at Baptist Hospital and will be catered by Marble Slab Creamery. Make your own sundae, enter to win door prizes, listen to a barber shop [...]
Pensacola Habitat Sends Volunteers Abroad
By Stephanie Sharp Nepal is home to the world’s 10 highest mountain peaks, incredible historic temples and a population stricken by poverty. 45 percent of the almost 30 million people living in Nepal live in poverty. The landlocked country is rich in culture and heritage, but the Nepali people [...]
Santa Rosa gets added to TS Debbie assistance, not Escambia
Press Release: Additional assistance to aid in recovery from the impacts of Tropical Storm Debby was approved today for additional Florida counties. The Public Assistance declaration has been extended to include Bradford, Collier, Duval, Lee, Levy, Madison, Putnam, Santa Rosa and Taylor Counties. [...]
Shop for Special Olympics
The Escambia/Santa Rosa Special Olympics team will be hosting a sale at the Bayview Park Flea Market on Saturday, July 21stfrom 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Come shop from a variety of new and used items to support your local Special Olympics athletes in their endeavors. Many of the athletes will be [...]
IMPACT 100 needs your vote
IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area has been selected as a Top Five Finalist for a 2012 CLASSY Awards! From a pool of 2,400 nominations throughout the country, their Achievement Story stood out as one of the best of the best and they have advanced to the Most Creative Fundraiser by a Charity. They [...]
Kickstart Soccer coming to Lexington Terrace
By Stephanie Sharp... With the EuroCup having just wrapped up and the Olympics just around the corner, the international soccer community is having a very exciting summer. Andreas Dias wants to make sure that kids in Pensacola have their own soccer excitement too look forward to this season. [...]
2012 Game Changers
The INweekly has picked 20 men and women whom the paper believes are helping redefine Pensacola. Pensacola tends to splitter and fall apart--more when things are going well than when the area is falling apart. The paper wanted to recognize individuals, groups and companies that refuse to give into [...]
Buzz: Studers plan Manna fundraiser
It hasn't been announced yet but we are hearing that Rishy and Quint Studer have set up a benefit for Manna Food Pantries, which was hit hard by the recent flooding disaster. On Sunday evening, July 29, the premier Frankie Valli tribute band Let’s Hang On will perform at the Randall & Martha [...]
Local Church Providing Meals on the 4th
A local church where the food pantry was broken into in May is continuing its mission to help the homeless with a special cook-out and food distribution on Independence Day. Holy Cross Metropolitan Community Church will host it's usual weekly food distributions on Wednesday, July 4, including a [...]
Admiral Mason Park Receives Award
The City of Pensacola’s Admiral Mason Park has received the Florida Stormwater Association (FSA) 2012 Project Excellence Award. The FSA presents the award annually to stormwater projects which demonstrate creativity, innovation and excellence. Admiral Mason Park, opened last fall, was [...]
Chain Reaction’s 4th Annual Teen Convention
Chain Reaction is hosting its fourth annual Teen Convention, taking leadership and character to the next level by giving all high school students the opportunity to learn from local leaders, participate in meaningful activities and learn skills for becoming socially responsible community members at [...]
Baptist Hospital to Celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day
Baptist Cancer Institute is hosting a cancer survivor celebration event in recognition of National Cancer Survivors Day, Sun., June 24, 2 to 4 p.m. at New World Landing, 600 South Palafox St., Pensacola. Nationally recognized speaker and comedian, Scott Burton, who also is a cancer survivor, [...]